Delta Airlines: Past, Present, and Future

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Delta Airlines: Past Present and Future

Delta Airlines have transformed over the decades. They started out as a crop dusting company, blossomed into an airline company, fought litigations, went bankrupt, then resurrected it and merged with Northwest Airlines to become one of the biggest airline companies in the world. Their aircraft, operations, and cities and countries that they service have transformed and blossomed as well.

In 1924, Huff Daland Dusters, Incorporated as a crop dusting company based in Macon, Georgia. Huff Daland Dusters began due to the enthusiasm about the aerial crop dusting activities in Tallulah, Louisiana that George Post, an airplane manufacturer, witnessed. George Post had a forced landing in Tallulah, Louisiana due to mechanical problems with his aircraft. George Post convinced his job owner to start Huff Daland Dusters. Huff Daland marked history by being the first commercial agricultural aviation company to go into business. Within a year, in 1925, the company and its 18 duster planes moved to Monroe, Louisiana at the advice of Dr. B. R. Coad.

Dr. Coad worked for the Bureau of Entomology in Tallulah, Louisiana. Dr. Coad made the suggestion to Huff to move to Monroe, Louisiana because of the increased profitability in Louisiana, and the advancements in entomology. This move resulted in the transformation of what we now know as Delta Airlines. Huff moved in 1925 to Monroe, Louisiana. C.E. Woolman, colleague of Dr. Coad and district agent and fellow entomologist and aviation enthusiast, left the Agriculture Extension Service to become one of the lead entomologists as Vice President and Field Manager.

Huff extended their operations to Florida, Arkansas, California and Mexico. Two years later, t...

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.... In 2003, short-lived, and affordable sub-airline, Song Airlines was launched. In 2007, Delta received its eighth CEO and survived from a bankruptcy and was freed from bankruptcy on April 30, 2007. In 2008, Northwest Airlines was acquired in a merging agreement.

Today, Delta is stronger than ever and is one of the biggest airlines in the world. More changes are to come. It is understood that Delta will be here to stay.

Works Cited

Delta History. Retrieved from http://news.delta.com/index.php?s=18&cat=39

Delta Museum. Retrieved from http://www.deltamuseum.org/M_Education_DeltaHistory_Facts_History.htm

History of Delta Airlines. Retrieved from http://www.century-of-flight.net/Aviation%20history/coming%20of%20age/usairlines/Delta%20Airlines.htm

The “Air Mail Scandal”. Retrieved from http://www.nasm.si.edu/americabyair/innovation/innovation05.cfm

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